Snakes on a Plane (Widescreen New Line Platinum Series)

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Snakes on a Plane knows exactly what kind of movie it is, knows exactly what moviegoers expect from a title like Snakes on a Plane, and delivers the exact pleasures of a movie in which poisonous snakes are unleashed on a plane to kill an eyewitness to murder. Samuel L. Jackson (Pulp Fiction, The Long Kiss Goodnight) knows exactly what he's doing in this movie and knows exactly when to pull out the superbad Samuel L. Jackson stare and deliver the infuriated Samuel L. Jackson bellow. The rest of the cast--including Julianna Margulies (ER), Rachel Blanchard (the TV series Clueless), Kenan Thompson (Fat Albert), David Koechner (Anchorman), Bobby Canavale (The Station Agent), and Sunny Mabrey (One Last Thing...)--play their parts with admirably straight faces and deadpan humor. Director David R. Ellis (Final Destination 2, Cellular) gives the movie the much-needed headlong momentum you would expect from a former stunt coordinator. In summation: A perfect piece of self-aware but not self-conscious high camp entertainment, blending comedy and thrills in perfect proportion. --Bret Fetzer

Description

On board a flight over the Pacific Ocean, an assassin, bent on killing a passenger who's a witness in protective custody, let loose a crate full of deadly snakes.

DVD Features:
Audio Commentary:featuring Director David Ellis, Samuel L. Jackson and more
Deleted Scenes:10 Deleted Scenes
Easter Eggs
Featurette:"Snakes on a Video" Cobra Starship, includes music video (8:55) "Pure Venom: Making of Snakes on a Plane" featurette (18:02) "Snakes on a Blog" featurette (12:18) "Meet the Reptiles" featurette (12:56) "VFX" featurette (5:00)
Gag Reel
Music Video
TV Spot
Theatrical Trailer

Customer Reviews:

Like watching Airplane without all the puns.......2007-09-10

There's a scene in snake's on a plane where a flight attendant sticks one of the snakes in a microwave and hits a buttons saying "snake" on it. That should be a hint not take this movie seriously. Word is they went back and did reshoots to make this film more camp than it already was - and it shows. However, the goal to make this like campy horror shifted into the territory of all out comedy.

Watching it reminded me of watching the great comedy Airplane. The stereotypical cast of characters showing up on an airplane: the star, the kids by themselves, the snob, and the lady with the crying baby. The cardboard performances and completely inconceivable plot had me hoping Samuel L. Jackson might quip "Don't Call Me Shirley."

But having a conceivable isn't what this movie is all about. When the snakes really start overtaking the plane, we get the goofy shock horror we were promised. It's a splatter fest to be sure - but the way we see some people die from snake attacks is hilarious. It's predictable, but it's fun. The ending is silly and the fun is over long before the credits start rolling. But take it for what it is - goofy fun - some of it intentional, some of it not so much. In the end, it's good for a laugh.

The worst movie I've ever seen. I LOVED IT!!.......2007-09-03

Seriously, just say the title to yourself. Slowly--one word at a time. Go ahead, no one's watching. Snakes...on...a...plane. Can you do that without laughing? I know I can't.

What started out as an EXPLOSIVE internet phenomenon in spring 2006 became a legend by August. And unless you've been living under a rock for the last year and a half, you'll definitely know something about Snakes On A Plane. When the story surfaced, I thought it was such a genius idea for a brainless summer popcorn movie, became a regular on the IMDb board for a bit, got an official T-Shirt at Hot Topic, and, unfortunately, didn't get a chance to see it when it opened on August 18th. Well, last night I sat down with a friend at 1:30 in the morning with a can of Rockstar, popcorn, and french fries and put the movie on, truly, completely not knowing of what was about to be thrown in my face.

As you can probably imagine, Snakes on a Plane is about...well...snakes on a plane. A teenager witnesses a brutal murder in Honolulu, doesn't do anything, and Samuel L. Jackson as a super-cool FBI agent must escort him to LA to testify. But the murderer wants this witness dead--so he releases deadly snakes on the plane to make sure he dies.

The film is basically made up of people getting killed in the most random and outrageous ways imaginable by this ASTOUNDINGLY unrealistic movie, and Samuel L. Jackson killing the snakes and trying to protect the passengers. Hilarity ensues--I laughed throughout the whole movie. The dialogue is absolutely ridiculous, badly written, super-corny, yet excruciatingly funny. Kenan Thompson portrays a video-game addict passenger who attempts to fly the plane and the whole thing is just really, really funny.

Aside from that, being honest--S.O.A.P is without a doubt the WORST movie I have ever seen. Ever. It has no story, it's extremely corny (even the scenes without the snakes), makes you want to kill yourself, it's terribly acted, and everything else bad you can think of. Yet, there's a little voice inside you protesting, insisting you watch the rest of Samuel L. Jackson beating the crap out of poisonous snakes. While it is the worst movie I've ever seen--I ABSOLUTELY LOVED IT. I know this is an over-used, worn-out expression, but this is really the only film I've ever seen where it 100% applies--Snakes on a Plane is SO bad, it's good. It makes for a fantastic laugh and it's a healthier alternative to drugs to forget all your problems and worries and just enjoy a night of watching snakes kill people on a plane. Overall, the ULTIMATE summer party movie. It's original as hell, side-splittingly funny, and 100% awesome--yet it's also the worst film ever produced.

The only problem is, I have no idea whether I give this movie 5 stars or 0 stars. So I've decided on half and half--a 2 1/2.

Just see this movie. SOAP will undoubtedly go down in history as a cult classic.

Not as good as I expected, but not as bad as I expected....and that's the problem!.......2007-09-03

I wanted to either LOVE this flick for its b-movie campiness or HATE it for its vapid plot and overly earnest delivery. Which is exactly the problem...at times the movie takes itself wayyyyy too seriously, and then other times it is total camp, with horrible dialogue (love some of the awful one-liners!) and over-the-top snake-related violence (and it should go without saying, but if you have any kind of fear of snakes, do not see the film, ever...the snakes are creepy and they do very creepy and nasty and even gory things!) Samuel was great as always and there's some other good casting here but again, I wanted them to either go totally over the top with the camp (which they never did) or try to make the plot and so forth at least reasonably believable (which it certainly was not!) If you've seen disaster films in the past then once they are on the plane it becomes fairly rote; however, if you don't expect TOO much, this isn't a bad way to pass 90-some minutes.

Worth watching 100 minutes for one lousy line?.......2007-09-02

I don't have a problem with movies that require you to switch off your brain as long as they're entertaining. Everybody knows that the premise of the movie and the script are horrible...heck, the producers probably wanted it to be this way. The movie wasn't entertaining in the least though. There's pretty much only one scene in the entire movie which might cause some excitement (Bad Mofo Samuel has to turn on the a/c) but that's about it. Other than that people are bitten in various areas and some folks die.

To recap...this movie isn't so bad that it's good...it's so bad that it is unbelievably bad.

"I have had ENOUGH of these mother****ing snakes on this mother****ing plane!".......2007-09-01

Even the title of this film makes you go, "Uhh-uhh-uhh-uhh!" And what a tag line!

Imagine, if you will, being the bad, bad defendant in a Federal case and knowing that some wimpy kid is going to testify against you. You have options: (A) Let Sir Galahad run his mouth and take your chances, (B) whack the kid on the ground before he opens his piehole, (C) make sure that the plane he's on never gets where it's going.

Option A is basically out. Option B is effective, but unoriginal. Option C is possible, but given increased airline security, things that go "boom" on board planes are a no-no. So what do you do?

Aha! You hire some Manson Family holdout who deals in venomous snakes to load the plane with all manner of scaly, slithering, hissing, fanged Eve deceivers, about a thousand of them, who promptly crawl their way into every crevice of the plane and begin attacking the passengers and crew.

This is the absurd premise of this ridiculously campy film. If you fear snakes, don't watch it. If you don't fear snakes, you might afterward. Or you might just say, "Uhh-uhh-uhh-uhh."

Straight out of Andy Sidaris's HARD TICKET TO HAWAII playbook we are entertained by snakes that, seeking warmth, crawl up girls' skirts, nestle in their cleavages, jump out of toilets to bite guys who are standing up, er, doing their business, drop out of the overhead luggage compartments to eat people's eyes, kill the entire flight crew en masse, and leave the plane flying pilotless over the Pacific in a typhoon. The director occasionally switches tenses, and we get to see the action through the eyes of the snakes. Roll a natural two.

While all this is going on, the passengers are of course screaming in terror, charging from one end of the plane to the other and climbing all over each other to get away from the snakes, even to the point of crushing one another to death. Oh, did I mention that the electrical system fails, making most of this chaos happen IN THE DARK?

There's only one man who can save the day, and that's Samuel L. Jackson as the Federal Marshal who is protecting said material witness. Mr. Jackson puts aside all of his innate dignity to play this role, and is clearly having a good, good time screaming, "Arrrrrrgh!" along with the rest of the cast. Finally though, he recruits a kid who hasn't gotten the high score on Chuck Yeager's Air Combat for PS2 to land the plane. Oh yeah, man.

The gross-out factor is pretty high, but so is the laugh factor. Memorable dialogue includes . . .

Passenger---"There's a snake guy on the phone is gonna help us."

Stewardess---"I never thought I would ever ask this question, but does anybody here know how to fly this plane?"

Guy with first aid kit---"The book says to suck out the poison," to which guy with his pants down says, "WHAT????"

. . . and so on. The scriptwriters leave no cliche unused as they turn the AIRPORT disaster genre totally on its head. Less slapstick, more intelligent and more hard-edged than the AIRPLANE series, this movie will instantly appeal to anybody who understands the art of the practical joke.

Pure, side-splitting yuckiness, SNAKES ON A PLANE will have you looking under your seat the next time you fly the friendly skies.

Jay Jay the Jet Plane - Jay Jay's Wing Wigglin' Mystery

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Where's teh theme song

Jay Jay the Jet Plane - Jay Jay's Wing Wigglin' Mystery
Starring: Gina Ribisi
Manufacturer: Pbs Paramount
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ASIN: B000PHX4GA
Release Date: 2007-08-07

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Where's teh theme song.......2007-09-10

I was horrified when the theme song was missing from this DVD. My 4 year old son has autism and goes through periods of time when he likes to watch and hear the same show or song over and over again. Well now it is Jay Jay. Well he only gets to watch it at the sitter's as we do not get any station that carries it at home. So my husband saw the DVD and bought it. I was so excited.. We showed my son the DVD and he went straigt to the couch to take a front row seat to watch. We kept waiting for the song. He got really upset and would not watch the rest of the DVD. The New Mystery style DVD's are all I can find. If they would just include the theme song on the extras feature of the DVD I think that would be great. If not I will not buy another DVD

Jay Jay the Jet Plane - Jay Jay's Big Mystery

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Jay Jay's Big Mystery
Different

Jay Jay the Jet Plane - Jay Jay's Big Mystery
Starring: Gina Ribisi
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ASIN: B000MGBSG2
Release Date: 2007-05-01

Customer Reviews:

Jay Jay's Big Mystery.......2007-06-10

WOW!!! My GrandDaughters LOVE this DVD They ask to see it over and over again We also have the first Mystery DVD and they LOVE that one also My 4 1/2 year old GrandDaughter Loves the way Brenda Blue asks the kids watching to help solve the mystery. We are looking forward to more NEW mystery DVD's Grandma says THANKS and keep the new DVD's coming PS my granddaughters still enjoy all the JAY JAY VCR tapes Grandma has My other GrandDaughter is 2 years old and LOVES JAY JAY TOO!!!

Different.......2007-05-20

This DVD was a little different than we expected. A new series of Jay Jay I guess! My son still loves it!!

Average customer rating:

Like watching Airplane without all the puns
The worst movie I've ever seen. I LOVED IT!!
Not as good as I expected, but not as bad as I expected....and that's the problem!
Worth watching 100 minutes for one lousy line?
"I have had ENOUGH of these mother****ing snakes on this mother****ing plane!"

Snakes on a Plane (Full Screen Edition)
Starring: Samuel L. Jackson , Julianna Margulies , Nathan Phillips (II) , Rachel Blanchard , and Flex Alexander
Director: David R. Ellis
Manufacturer: New Line Home Video
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ASIN: B000JBXHR8
Release Date: 2007-01-02

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Description

On board a flight over the Pacific Ocean, an assassin, bent on killing a passenger who's a witness in protective custody, let loose a crate full of deadly snakes.

Customer Reviews:

Like watching Airplane without all the puns.......2007-09-10

The worst movie I've ever seen. I LOVED IT!!.......2007-09-03

Not as good as I expected, but not as bad as I expected....and that's the problem!.......2007-09-03

Worth watching 100 minutes for one lousy line?.......2007-09-02

"I have had ENOUGH of these mother****ing snakes on this mother****ing plane!".......2007-09-01

Flight of the Living Dead: Outbreak on a Plane

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Buyer Beware, Not Good!!
Zombies on a Plane!

Flight of the Living Dead: Outbreak on a Plane
Starring: Erick Avari , Dale Midkiff , Kevin J. O'Connor , Raymond Barry , and Derek Webster
Director: Scott Thomas
Manufacturer: New Line Home Video
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ASIN: B000TUDIL4
Release Date: 2007-10-02

Description

Unholy terror is unleashed in the skies when a deadly, genetically engineered virus is released onboard a transatlantic flight to Paris in this heart-stopping thrill-ride of terror! When a scientist on the run from the CIA manages to smuggle a contaminated body onto a commercial overseas flight, the plane becomes an incubator for a quickly growing army of the undead. With a zombie invasion spreading through the cabin, only a handful of passengers remains to fight off their fellow travelers and land the plane before it's too late.

DVD Features:
Audio Commentary:Feature Commentary #1 with Director Scott Thomas and Producer David Shoshan. Feature Commentary #2 with IGN.com (IGN is a multimedia news and reviews website that boast 12 million unique visitors. Their commentary and promotion of the film on the site will provide unprecedented exposure to the core demo)
Gag Reel:Features hilarious out takes!

Customer Reviews:

Buyer Beware, Not Good!!.......2007-08-30

I went into this not expecting much & rightly so after watching it. You thought "Snakes On A Plane" was bad, watch out cause it gets worse. If this movie were on cable & you could watch it for free when you have nothing better to do, maybe. This movie is absolutely not worth a rental much less actually paying full price to own it. The
acting & plot actually weren't half bad, it's the directing &
special effects that really kill the movie. The characters are even
likeable for the most part aside from the annoying teenager types &
their pointless to the plot love triangle that take up the majority
of the 1st hour of the movie.
You basically have a plane transporting a "return Of The Living
Dead" style toxin with a zombie lady inside. The plane hits rough
weather, the container opens, & carnage follows. The 1st 45 minutes
of the movie is just character drama, & bad CGI shots of the plane.
Back & forth, back & forth; it gets REALLY old. Then when the
zombies finally do show up the make-up is done well enough, but the
blood is that kinda watery pink & completely unbelievable stuff you see in the lower budgeted
horror flicks. The gore is pretty tame & really isn't there other
than alot of blood. You'll see the bite about to happen & then the
camera pulls away, never really any good gut munching any where to
be found.
The other thing that really kills this film is the shear
implausibility of everything that goes on. Given this is a Zombie
movie that takes place on a plane, I understand there are already
some believabilty issues with that, get past that though & you'll
still have a really hard time. For starters there are tons of guns
on this plane that are going off constantly that never manage to
breach the plane, people walking around with golf clubs & footballs;
just stuff you don't normally see on your average flight. Then if &
when you get past that there are bombs going off inside the plane
with huge explosions that only seem to harm zombies & don't do any
real damage to the plane. The plane even gets hit by a missle &
manages to stay in the sky. All this happens mind you while the
plane is on auto pilot because the pilots are both bitten about
halfway through the movie. Then you've got zombies ripping through
the floor from the luggage area to get to passengers with their bare
hands & smashing threw the mirrors in the bathroom, just kinda lame
stuff that impossible stuff that they make look like it happens
everyday. I'd mentioned the bad CGI earlier, well let me just
reaffirm that once more. The CGI you get outta this movie is
really, REALLY bad. I've seen better CGI on TV, this is the sloppy
amateur hour stuff you'll be used to if you've seen many low budget
direct to DVD action/sci-fi/horror flicks of recent years.
I really can't recommend this movie. While it may be better than
say Zombiez, House Of The Dead (1&2), Return Of The Living Dead
(4&5), & Day Of The Dead 2 Contagion (basically anything Lions Gate
or Anchor Bay have done direct to video the exception being Uwe's
movies :P), that ain't hard to do & does not make this good. I
strongly caution anyone to spend any kind of money on this what so
ever (even a rental). Don't say I didn't warn you!

Zombies on a Plane!.......2007-08-04

You have herd of Snakes on a Plane and Snakes on a train but have you herd of Plain of the Dead aka Flight of the Living Dead: Outbreak on a Plane? Directed by Scott Thomas, the director of Deranged (2001).

This movie rocks! It is full of blood, gore, action and some suspense and eroticism! A must have for any Zombie fan, get your copy today! this is one cool Zombie flick!

Plot line: On a flight from Los Angeles to Paris, a mad scientist on the run from the CIA is transporting a coffin containing the body of a colleague infected with a genetically modified virus. While the 747 crosses a violent thunderstorm, the instability of the aircraft allows the corpse to get out of its container. The flesh-eating zombie quickly starts to spread the virus, infecting many of the passengers which now will have to fight for their lives stranded in the air with no way out...

Tag line: Un-Dead at 30,000 Feet.

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How to Tell That Harrison Ford is Alive
Private life does not mix with politics
Yes, it's depressing-that's what's great about it.
disappointment!!
A real gem

Random Hearts
Starring: Dylan Baker , Christina Chang , Bill Cobbs , Peter Coyote , and Charles S. Dutton
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ASIN: B00003OSSL
Release Date: 2000-02-29

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Reviled by critics and largely ignored by moviegoers when released in 1999, Random Hearts is a pox on the reputations of Harrison Ford, Kristin Scott Thomas, and director Sydney Pollack, but it doesn't entirely deserve its lowly fate. The movie's lugubriously paced and its repressed passions are dulled under the weight of relentless melancholy, but Pollack deserves credit for defying the Hollywood Zeitgeist with a mature, substantial film about the power of betrayal to reach beyond the grave.

Ford plays a Washington, D.C. detective; Scott Thomas is a Congresswoman in the midst of a re-election campaign. When their spouses die in a plane crash, the cop is convinced they'd been having an affair, and his obsessive, masochistic quest for the painful truth draws him closer to the Congresswoman despite the mutual risks to their careers and domestic privacy. While she hides behind a façade of denial, his agonized investigation makes him simultaneously unappealing (a risk Ford may have taken as a challenge), sympathetic, and sadly compelling.

Pollack takes his own chances by keeping everything so relentlessly downbeat, but anyone receptive to the story will find that Random Hearts is a subtly rewarding study of tormented adults who've discovered too late the weaknesses of their seemingly stable marriages. It's anything but cheerful, and a subplot involving a corrupt cop (Dennis Haysbert) is a formulaic distraction. But Random Hearts provides welcome relief from dramas that flirt with emotional anguish without delving into its deeper consequences. --Jeff Shannon

Customer Reviews:

How to Tell That Harrison Ford is Alive.......2007-09-14

You can tell that Harrison Ford is alive because his lips occasionally move. His face looks like it is carved in stone throughout the movie, no smiles, no sorrow, no happiness, just a death mask. His wife, and a congresswoman's husband die together in a plane crash. It turns out that they were having an affair. The bereft husband (Ford) and wife (Thomas) sort of fall in love. You sit through this movie constantly wondering why anyone would fall for the wooden Harrison Ford. Don't get me wrong, I like Harrison Ford, but in this flick his affectless performance makes John Wayne seem like Jerry Lewis.

So there you have it, a totally uninteresting romance. This is one movie where you do not see the newly in love couple romping through a flowery meadow. In fact it would be more likely to have Scott take Ford to a mortuary and have him embalmed.

Realizing that the audience will probably doze off from time to time, the director periodically livens things up by having Ford, a police officer, punch somebody out or threaten to kill someone. So that's it, a policeman with total face paralysis takes up with a Republican (in case that matters to you) Congresswoman and they do things together. What things? Well you know, sit on a park bench and eat sandwiches, fondle each other in a car, ransack the apartment where their ex spouses would have their trysts. Finally, the movie doesn't end; it just dies.

Oh, I might add that if you go to the Rotten Tomatoes web site you'll find that only 13% of the top critics found Random Hearts to be an interesting movie. I tend to agree with Todd McCarthy of Variety when he says, "Laborious, remote and strangely uninvolving."

Private life does not mix with politics.......2007-09-02

Politics and sex life do not work together very well in the USA as soon it gets off the very straight direct family-oriented lackluster public image politicians are supposed to respect down to the very last dot on the line. A supercop in Washington DC and a female representative in Congress from the state of New Hampshire get together due to the accident that drowns their spouses in a plane crash. This adultery on the side of the husband of the representative will ruin her life and career and the purely accidental and transient relation between the two survivors will become the only question that will seem important for the press. Something is wrong in this country and it has to be healed fast. The film shows the situation, its contradictions and the passion that will in fact be nothing but solace in a stressful moment with tact and great acting, with delicacy and an apology for the narrow-mindedness of the press and political system of a country which is supposed to be a democracy and does not guarantee the privacy of the private life of its politicians. That kind of wild hunting from some journalists is criminal and ten years ago it cost the life of Princess Diana under a bridge in Paris. That kind of trashy journalism should be outlawed and severely punished by our courts. The film seems clear about it: freedom still has a lot of battles to fight and win in our countries. The end of history is far from being close at hand.

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne & University Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines

Yes, it's depressing-that's what's great about it........2006-09-26

It's also honest-something people avoid if things might get messy. People cheat-it happens every day. The lighting, music and slow pacing only accentuate the melacholy mood of the film. I love depressing movies-music too. There's no escaping the truth for these characters. It's painful. Betrayal always is-eventually. If you don't like depressing stuff, this movie will turn you off-even if you like the leads. Pollack's direction is perfect for the material-something I imagine he did on purpose. This is adult material-it's just that adults don't usually like to deal with difficult issues.

The two weak points of the film are the side story and the romance. The friendship between the two leads is believable-the romance is not. However, the film is so dreary that even these two items don't take away from the film's power. Marrying someone is no guarantee of fidelity. There is a darkness about humans that lies in their desire to please themselves-even at the cost of hurting the one they love most. That, and you will never really know the darkest recesses of the one you love 'til they rip your heart out and leave you "in the shadow of the light from a black sun".

disappointment!!.......2006-08-31

I thought this movie was a big disappointment. Harrison Ford plays a widow who finds out his wife was on a plane with her lover when they both die in the crash. He wants to know why his wife had an affair and how could she have lied to him and how long and how serious...blah, blah. All he did was whine the entire movie. Also, he plays a police officer and not a very good one. This movie lacked substance and character.

A real gem.......2006-08-19

I really liked the movie and I don't understand why some people didn't like it. It shows the true emotions inside us and how we can be moved by extraordinary events in life. Harrison Ford is a gem of an actor. I also liked the acting of others. I think I'll watch it again.

Jay Jay the Jet Plane - Jay Jay's Sensational Mystery

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More educational than the old version.
Disappointing to say the very least

Jay Jay the Jet Plane - Jay Jay's Sensational Mystery
Starring: Gina Ribisi
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ASIN: B000FEBWT4
Release Date: 2006-07-25

Description

Jay Jay The Jet Plane follows the exciting adventures of a perky and curious six-year-old jet plane, Jay Jay, and his airplane friends. They live and play at Tarrytown Airport, a place where imagination takes flight! Each Jay Jay episode includes valuable life lessons for young children. They learn important lessons about cooperation, teamwork, responsibility and science and nature.

Customer Reviews:

More educational than the old version........2006-09-28

I was a little annoyed when I learned about the "Jay Jay's Mysteries" changes to the new episodes. And I really freaked out when we didn't hear the familiar theme song. BUT give these a chance. They focus on teaching concepts like shapes, sizes and the five senses. (And Brenda blue gets an actual tool belt, which makes a heck of a lot more sense than the red belt she used to wear with her coveralls.) In addition to these new mysteries, this DVD features some "old school" -- style episodes, complete with the old theme song. So this is a good mix of the old and new. And my kids seem to really enjoy Lena.

Disappointing to say the very least.......2006-08-09

My son and I anxiously awaited the release of a new Jay Jay the Jetplane DVD and I must say both of us were immensely disappointed. The format was different from former episodes and focused was primarily Jay Jay and the new plane, Lena. Brenda Blue was a huge focus as well, as most of the talking was done between Brenda and the planes. (Why they can't just let Brenda wear her hair down is beyond me, she's prettier than they're making her look - she looked strange in the backwards baseball cap.)
Tracy made an appearance for a few seconds, but that was it. It's apparent that they're trying to copy Dora the Explorer with the Spanish speaking character - but they went over the top with it. Lena is a cute character but should not have been focused on so heavily.
All in all, if you like the older Jay Jay episodes and were looking forward to some new ones - I think you'll be disappointed. I would rent this DVD first before spending the money to buy it.

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Bells of Innocence - Chuck Norris
I really wanted to like this movie, but...
Silliest movie i've seen in a long time
Christian Zombie Western Supernatural Horror Buddy Film
Original, Mesmerizing Thriller

Bells of Innocence
Starring: Chuck Norris , Mike Norris , Carey Scott , David A.R. White , and Marshall R. Teague
Director: Ali Bijan
Manufacturer: Good Times Video
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ASIN: B0001KREGC
Release Date: 2004-06-01

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Bells of Innocence - Chuck Norris.......2007-07-20

Great message of faith. Also alerts you to the fact that we must at all times protect our children because the enemy (satan) is out to destroy them. They are our future.

I really wanted to like this movie, but..........2007-01-03

I got this DVD to show it to my friends from Church around Halloween. I really wanted to like it because it is a Christian film and because it has Chuck Norris in it. But it was really bad. The acting was bad, the dialogue and story were silly and there was hardly any action. I decided that I would not put my Christian friends through this punishment and I never watched it with them. I will probably trade this movie for something else at a local movie trading store.

Silliest movie i've seen in a long time.......2007-01-02

"Bells of Innocence" is about three guys who are flying to Mexico in a small plane to deliver bibels. Their plane runs out of oil and they have to land in the middle of nowhere, somewhere in Texas. They find a small town where there is no phone and everybody's acting strange, especially the children. Chuck Norris appears as a mysterious man with a horse. After a while it turns out the town has been taken over by the devil or something like that and that our three christian heroes must save the children.

Even though I know that whenever a film stars David A.R. White, the film is always some sort of christian propaganda, and usually not well made. Still, "Bells of Innocence" was surprisingly badly made. The special effects were what you might have expected from a 1960s movie, and all of the dialogue, and the entire story, was laughable.

If you're looking for a good movie, look elsewhere. If you're looking for a Chuck Norris movie, look elsewhere. He only plays a minor character. If you're looking for a movie that preaches christianity, this might do, and it's also worth watching if you like really bad movies, because it's so bad it's entertaining.

Christian Zombie Western Supernatural Horror Buddy Film.......2006-06-15

A gutsy and ingeniously approached spiritual warfare drama about battling demons, both one's own and in intercession. Intense and horrifying--as a movie dealing with Satan, soul stealing, and the horrors of hell should be. Mike Norris plays "Jux," a man out of fellowship and in a dark place personally after his wife left him, blaming him for their daughter's death. Yet Jux agrees to pilot his Christian buds Conrad and Oren to transport their collected Bibles to Mexico. The plane crashes outside "Ceres," a place that "doesn't even look like the planet Earth, man," "dirt, and a lot of sky," "not a place but a what." Hmmmm....Ceres, I recall from mythology, was the Roman name for the goddess who went looking for her daughter that was kidnapped by Hades. But that's not spoiling the movie, it's full of surprises--though yeah, it's about setting captives free. This movie's desert town of Ceres is populated by mark-bearing drones with superhuman strength and kids dressed like Little House on the Prairie...and then there's supercool "Michael," played by Chuck Norris, of course. "Bells of Innocence" caught my eye in the store at a time when I'd been praying for wisdom for what to do after I heard an other-worldly, threatening voice come out of a zombie-like shell of a person whose eyes normally were lifelessly void or displayed flashes of imprisoned fear, not the blazing hate that accompanied the demonic voice. Anyway, "Bells of Innocence" helped me to stand firm in faith, to strengthen my commitment to Jesus, to intercession, and to "fear not man who can kill the body but not the soul." My only reservation about the movie is that it's too scary for most kids. Everything else about it I found impressive: story, acting, music, production and underlying biblical message.

Original, Mesmerizing Thriller.......2006-04-12

Bells of Innocence is a thriller with a Christian faith-based theme, but is not too preachy, and succeeds in the creator's efforts to appeal to secular as well as religious audiences.

Chuck Norris stars as the mysterious Matthew, who assists three friends whose plane has crashed in a remote, sinister Texas town that is not found on any map. Mike Norris, Chuck's son, plays Jux, a tormented soul who has lost his faith with his young daughter's death. The three friends soon find themselves in a battle against Satan's minions for the souls of the town, and most importantly, the children who are being manipulated and used.

Though this film may be billed as a family movie, with no nudity or profanity, this is a dark thriller for adults. There are terrifying and violent scenes. The movie starts off slow, but it pulls the viewer in and scares you as bad as any secular horror film. Do not watch this film at night.

As far as those Amazon reviewers who have panned the film and said the acting was horrible, if they can genuinely cry as Mike Norris did in the climatic scene, then I would take their comments seriously. The acting was not horrible. It was solid, especially the villianious Joshua, played by Marshall Teague.

Very odd is that the only actor who WAS poor, David White (Conrad), looks exactly like Chuck Norris. I spent the entire movie thinking that White was Norris' son. Mike Norris in reality looks nothing like his father, and even looks the same age as Chuck. This movie is worth checking out just for this anamoly.

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bad follow-up
Very boring
Wild Things 2
UH...NO!!!
Direct to video potboiler re-tread that never should have been made

Wild Things 2
Starring: Susan Ward , Leila Arcieri , Isaiah Washington , Michael Chieffo , and Linden Ashby
Director: Jack Perez
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
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ASIN: B0001GF2BA
Release Date: 2004-04-20

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Wild Things 2, the purported sequel to the 1998 guilty-pleasure classic, returns to steamy Florida for another tale of trashy thrills among the lives of high school students. Brittany (Susan Ward, of the Aaron Spelling soaps Malibu Shores and Sunset Beach) is a beach-volleyball stud and nice girl whose chance for happiness is threatened by her vicious rival Maya (Leila Arcieri). Toss in a suspicious investigator (Isaiah Washington), some plot twists, and laughable dialogue, and sit back for the ride. Wild Things 2 isn't really a sequel; none of the characters (and not surprisingly none of the actors) return, though there is a re-do of the original's most famous scene. That's about the only semi-noteworthy aspect of this straight-to-video potboiler. --David Horiuchi

Customer Reviews:

bad follow-up.......2007-02-23

As good of surprise that the original movie was, Wild Tings 2 surprised us again- in the opposite way. May be expectations were high, but this movie proved to be swallow and predictible, something that the first was not. If you have not seen the first one then this one could be watchedwith some interest and thatshow it gets the second star. A movie about a spoiled rich girl that wants everything and will stop at nothing in order to do it.

Very boring.......2006-02-22

The plot to this movie or so called sequal is horrible. I rented this movie expecting something good and I end up falling asleep. I actually had to watch it several times just to find out what really happened. Don't even buy it, it is a waist of your money!

Wild Things 2.......2006-02-22

It's a movie that is certainly a sign of the times. It's a teen devises a way to get money type movie. It does contain murder and some skin. It won't win an Academy Award, but it's fun if you don't take it seriously.

UH...NO!!!.......2006-01-05

Don't even think about it.

Direct to video potboiler re-tread that never should have been made.......2005-09-30

This direct to video "sequel" is actually more of a re-tread of the original 1998 guilty pleasure erotic thriller/film noir potboiler, and another of the countless, and pointless, direct to video sequels to come from Sony/Comlumbia/Tri-Star as of late (Cruel Intentions 2 & 3, Starship Troopers 2, shall I go on?). Wild Things 2 focuses around a rich girl (Susan Ward) whose stepfather mysteriously dies, and the only thing standing in her way of inheritance is her high school rival (Son of the Beach's hot Leila Arcieri) who claims to be the man's true, biological daughter. Naturally, just like in the original, there are plot twists aplenty, as learned by an insurance investigator (Isiah Washington, giving a somewhat inspired performance), and naturally, there are double crosses, murders, and a redux of the first film's threesome, only it's not as erotic as the original's. Wild Things 2 isn't just a cardboard copy of the original with none of it's good points, it's a solid waste of film that even fans of the original film will hate. Is it worth seeing? Depends how much you liked the first Wild Things, but for the rest of us, just watch the original and forget this ever happened.

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Great story!
what's luck got to do with it?
Facinating blend of 'Deer Hunter' Premise and Twilight Zone
Interesting premise, poor editing/storytelling
A Crazy Ride in Spanish Style

Intacto
Starring: Leonardo Sbaraglia , Eusebio Poncela , Mónica López , Antonio Dechent , and Max von Sydow
Director: Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
Manufacturer: Lions Gate
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ASIN: B00008WJBU
Release Date: 2003-06-24

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Considered "lucky" after surviving a plane crash, a thief is recruited into an underground gambling ring where death and luck intermingle. The ring leader has the power to steal his luck and will stop at nothing to do it...

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Starring Max von Sydow

Directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo

Running time: 109 minutes

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This sleek, stylish thriller suggests that luck is a quality we possess, like strength or intelligence, but the more fortunate among us can steal the luck of those less charmed. When a bank robber named Tomas is the only survivor of a plane wreck, the luckless Federico thinks he's found the man who can defeat the Jew--the luckiest man alive, a Holocaust survivor who sits at the apex of a weird, underground world of increasingly dangerous gambles. But on their trail is a police detective named Sara who's pretty lucky herself--and as she learns more about how luck works, she begins to suspect she survived a car crash because she stole the luck of her husband and child, both of whom died. The stealthy story is packed with eerie visuals and charismatic performances, including Max von Sydow (truly one of the greatest actors alive) as the Jew. --Bret Fetzer

Customer Reviews:

Great story!.......2007-07-01

I didn't mind the subtitles at all, for this movie has a great deal going on and you are soon submerged in the story. A man who survived a Nazi concentration camp believes good and bad luck can be 'transferred'. He runs a casino where luck is vital to the players and many often have 'high stakes' in some bizarre games played behind closed doors. For some, it appears they do have extraordinary 'luck', but can life's events really be that simple? I was very surprised by the ending and it prompted a long discussion between my husband and myself as to whether good luck actually exists for some and not others.

Chrissy K. McVay - Author

what's luck got to do with it?.......2007-03-12

The odd thing when you watch the opening scene of Intacto is a weird feeling of deja vu as you realize the opening scene of the Cooler appears to be stolen from Intacto which predates it by two years. That said, I would agree with the more critical person who said that the logic of luck in the Cooler is a bit easier to follow that the concept of luck employed in Intacto. (The Cooler has its own problems, however.)

Possible spoiler alert. Like the Cooler, Intacto has a kind of feel-good message underneath it that love and emotion eventually have some impact on luck in the end, which doesn't quite work for me, honestly, especially not in this one. In order to get us there, the script connives to get the hero to wager unknowingly the luck of a woman he loves but that forced plot development seems simply to raise lots of questions about the mechanism of the bets and how a simple photograph carries with it anything about the person if that person has not agreed to surrender their luck (as seemed to be necessarily the case in another sequence); it confuses the issue of how exactly the luck obtaining process, which the film depicts but glosses over in the details, is supposed to really work. And it also just feels wrong in a movie of ideas like this one to imply so simplistically that true selfless love is supposed to bring good results (ergo the people who died in the camps instead of the Luckiest man in the world didn't love and so they didn't have luck?). Perhaps the filmmaker has a completely well thought out explanation of it all but it doesn't quite come across in the film and so it's hard to feel by the end of it any real satisfaction in the plot events.

Intacto does contain a number of very memorable and distinctive scenes of luck challenges or contests: the forest scene being probably the best of them. This is an odd film overall but it has a certain strange charm to it despite its pronounced failings, so I could see things to be gained from watching it if you're interested in the luck theme as I was.

Facinating blend of 'Deer Hunter' Premise and Twilight Zone.......2007-03-10

`Intacto', the Spanish language film directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo is an ingenious take on an idea seemingly borrowed from `The Deer Hunter', with a bit of subtle sci-fi theming worthy of Rod Serling's `The Twilight Zone'. The impact of the supernatural theme is made convincing by the appearance of the great Max Von Sydow in an important supporting role. His appearance in all those spooky early Ingemar Bergman movies makes his character all that more credible.

The story is a bit thin. All the interest in the movie revolves around the characters' participation in highly dangerous, some even fatal games of chance, much like the Russian roulette theme from `The Deer Hunter'. While the attraction in `The Deer Hunter' is purely an addiction to the thrill of the risk, the attraction is both more subtle and stronger in `Intacto'.

I'm a big fan of the director's commentary on movies like this, but I found the commentary just a bit thin here. It did very little to explain the basic premise, it's development, or its origins.

The movie is not as deep or as emotionally involving as Bergman's `The Magician' or `The Virgin Spring' or Fellini's `La Dolce Vita'. The characters are thrill seekers with little depth, but the subtly supernatural premise and the way the story is told makes the trip interesting.

Interesting premise, poor editing/storytelling.......2006-02-05

A one-line summary of this movie makes it sound fascinating: Proven lucky people (sole survivors of plane crashes and car accidents, for instance) compete in high-stakes, ultimately deadly "Who's really the luckiest?" competitions. It's a great concept, really, but it's told in a very confusing, poorly edited way so you never really quite understand what's goin on. There's some references to people's luck being drained from them when one of the other luckies touches them, but this is never really explained satisfactorily. The characters' storylines are never really fleshed out to let us know who's who and what their relationships are to each other. Still, there are some nice moments in the film...the scene of all the blindfolded luckies running full-speed through a dense forest until only one is left standing comes to mind. Sadly, the whole of the movie is far less satisfying than parts such as this.

A Crazy Ride in Spanish Style.......2005-09-27

Have you ever tried to test your luck? Just to see how lucky you are or, better say, how crazy your luck could be? Some people find it out a hard way.. Some through Nazi's concentration camps, some in ill-fortunate air flight, the possibilities are endless and versatile like the life itself. But this movie is not just about luck. It also explores the power of coincidence, the power of attraction, what and who people are ready to sacrifice for their love and what and who to betray for their power, for the power of being Invincible. It is the superb mystic thriller which will keep you on the edge of your seat from the begining to end. But when it is over please don't try to check your luck like they do in the movie, after all you are given only one chance.

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